The 33Fuel Blog
Carbohydrate for runnersModern sports nutrition theory has us locked down hard when it comes to the subject of carbohydrate for runners. The rules, we are told, are that we we need loads of carbohydrates for running performance. This isn't even close to true, and nor is it helpful for performance, stomach happiness or longterm health. Teaching [...]
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Broscience in sports nutrition and why it mattersBroscience is a tag applied to any evidence for change not proven by science. It sounds hollow and demeans evidence it's applied to at a stroke. "But it's not real science" someone will bleat before closing their mind and moving on. By contrast actual science remains the lone [...]
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Sports nutrition’s Toxic Twelve, part 2: 12 ingredients to run a mile fromContinuing our journey through the worst ingredients in sports nutrition today, meet the rest of sports nutrition's 'Toxic Twelve' (click here for part one). If you see any one of these on an ingredients label you know the product's a dud. Each is a [...]
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Sports nutrition's Toxic Twelve, part 1: 12 ingredients to run a mile fromYou’re in good shape, now you want to get into great shape. So you pick a serious target and draw up a serious plan. Serious plans always come with serious nutrition so you start researching which is where the problem begins because the [...]
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In which we cycle Bealach na Ba, Britain's toughest bike climb and live to tell the tale. With more cyclists than ever succumbing to the mythical pull of the Tour de France’s big climbs it can be too easy to overlook those closer to home
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